Digital Humanities and Media Studies

Anna Lindemann will be joined by collaborator Dr. Alice DuVivier in presenting “Arctic Shifts,”an art-science animation featured in the 2025 DMD Faculty Exhibition. The Arctic is the region of our planet warming most rapidly due to climate change. “Arctic Shifts” asks viewers to consider the connections between our human activity and the ecosystem and environmental changes occurring in the Arctic. This four-part animation references scientific research and incorporates visualizations of the Arctic’s future climate generated using a state-of-the art global climate model. At the same time, “Arctic Shifts” shows possible future scenarios for Arctic food webs that go beyond the scope of current scientific simulations. The animation presents three different stories about what the Arctic might look like in the future.

Speaker Bios:

Anna Lindemann calls herself an Evo Devo Artist. Her work as a composer, animator, and performer explores the field of evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo). Her work seeks to uncover narratives within rigorous scientific research, to visualize biological processes in novel ways, to define new creative processes modeled on biological processes, and to examine the human emotion and subjectivity behind scientific research. Her work, including the animated short Beetle Bluffs (2013) and the art-science performances Theory of Flight (2011) and The Colony (2019), has been featured internationally at black box theaters, planetariums, galleries, concert halls, biology conferences, film festivals, digital art conferences, and natural history museums. She is the recipient of a Connecticut Artist Fellowship and a co-PI on a National Science Foundation grant. Anna received an M.F.A. in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Biology from Yale. She is an associate professor in the Digital Media & Design department at the University of Connecticut where she has pioneered courses integrating art and science. www.annalindemann.com

Dr. Alice DuVivier uses climate models and observations to investigate physical processes and the changing climate in the Arctic and Antarctic. She is interested in understanding exchanges of energy and moisture between the sea ice, atmosphere, and ocean. She also investigates how the changing polar regions will affect natural ecosystems and the people living and working in the polar regions. Her physical science research has been published in a number of Earth science journals. She is also very interested in outreach to students and the public and is interested in learning how to optimally communicate about climate and polar science in novel ways and to all types of audiences. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a B.A. in Physics from Colorado College. She is currently a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. https://duvivier.github.io/